Other Scientific And Technical Consulting Services federal obligations in Virginia

Sci/tech consulting and Virginia as a pair

Other Scientific And Technical Consulting Services as the NAICS industry, Virginia as place of performance: 1,486 records summing to $493,259,628.67. An award in this industry coded outside VA is out. An award in Virginia from a different NAICS is out even if the work sounds related. Virginia (VA) excludes Maryland, North Carolina, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in Virginia. Virginia place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Norfolk, Arlington, Richmond, or a Pentagon-adjacent ZIP.

1,486 awards is a mid-count industry cell. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows without each one being a new establishment. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,486 as 1,486 unique firms. The overlay path for this pair is the ties page for other scientific and technical consulting services in Virginia. Virginia federal spending is the all-industry state hub. NAICS 541690 is the industry book without a VA filter. Virginia industries lists other NAICS cells inside the state. All spending ties lists other joins.

The implied mean is about $331,938 per award — a quotient of two packet facts, not a typical project. Dollars and row counts tell different stories on the same join. Correlation is not causation: Virginia did not “cause” $493,259,628.67 by existing as a large or small place, and NAICS 541690 did not “cause” the geography tag. Population, employment, and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 541690 × VA only.

Scientific consulting, not a staff roster

$493,259,628.67 does not measure consultants employed, studies delivered, or laboratories operated. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. NAICS 541690 covers other scientific and technical consulting services: scientific and technical advice not classified in more specific 5416 codes, as tagged on the award. It is not a headcount of consultants and not a census of studies published. The cell sums award obligations with NAICS 541690 and a VA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1,486 awards as a census of consultants employed. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Virginia federal spending or the national NAICS 541690 table matched $493,259,628.67 and 1,486, the join would be pointless. Use the ties page when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state cells for the same NAICS are other pairs, not addends.

Virginia statewide, not a local map

Place of performance VA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Virginia (VA) excludes Maryland, North Carolina, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in Virginia. Recipient headquarters can sit in another state while the place-of-performance tag remains VA. Contractor address is not this filter.

Virginia place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Norfolk, Arlington, Richmond, or a Pentagon-adjacent ZIP. This packet does not split $493,259,628.67 by city, county, installation, or named facility. 1,486 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. Do not infer a regional ranking from a single state×industry cell.

Obligations still are not outlays

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $493,259,628.67 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Virginia confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Virginia’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,486-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $493,259,628.67. Campaign-finance filings are a different dataset; this page does not treat donations as funding these awards.

Citing Sci/tech consulting in Virginia

Cite USAspending.gov: Other Scientific And Technical Consulting Services (NAICS 541690) obligated $493,259,628.67 on 1,486 awards coded to Virginia. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as consultants employed, studies delivered, or laboratories operated.

Prefer the ties page for other scientific and technical consulting services in Virginia if a live overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Virginia federal spending still includes every other NAICS tagged to VA. NAICS 541690 is the industry parent without the VA filter. Virginia industries is the state’s industry index. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $493,259,628.67.

A usable footnote names Other Scientific And Technical Consulting Services, Virginia, NAICS 541690, $493,259,628.67, and 1,486. The compact headline $493M is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $331,938 is $493,259,628.67 divided by 1,486. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the federal government obligated for other scientific and technical consulting services in Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $493,259,628.67 across 1,486 awards with NAICS 541690 and a Virginia place-of-performance tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of consultants employed. Keep both keys when quoting $493,259,628.67.

Does this total count consultants employed?

No. The packet publishes $493,259,628.67 and 1,486 awards for NAICS 541690 inside VA coding. Consultants employed, studies delivered, or laboratories operated are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this Virginia file have 1,486 awards?

That is the award-record count for 541690 × VA. Combined with $493,259,628.67, the average is about $331,938. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,486 is not unique consultants employed. Later ingests can revise the count.

Where is the live table?

Virginia federal spending and NAICS 541690 are the parents, not addends. Virginia industries lists other NAICS cells in the state. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $493,259,628.67. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.